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Picross: Reviews

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Game Score: 7/10

Picross DS is part of a series that dates back to early PC and SNES in Japan. Like a lot of those long running series, including Famicom Wars and Fire Emblem, the games have only just begun to leak outside the borders of Japan.

Picross is like sudoku, only with a twist. The game is set up like a grid with numbers at the end of each line of squares. The number tells you how many squares need to be filled in a given row, but not where to fill them. This is where it becomes a thinking man's game. Using basic addition and subtraction, you must work out where in the line of squares to start filling them in. This can actually become frustrating on the larger grids, as the game quickly disolves into guessing rather than any actual skill or mathematical prowess. The grid can also have more than one number for you to work out. The rule is you must skip at least one square between numbers. The goal is to end up filling enough lines that a picture starts to surface. At a certain point, you can honestly start filling in squares without even thinking as long as you know what the picture you are trying to make is.

*Pros*
-A ton of puzzles-
-Works your brain. It actually makes math fun!-
-Something you can play for 5 minutes or 5 hours and walk away satisfied-

*Cons*
-Only four songs to choose from, all of which become quickly repeatative-
-Larger grids become more of a guessing game-